A-type star · white star
30 Dra
30 Dra is a white star in the constellation Draco 217 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.84× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 217 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6656 · HD 162579 · HIP 87212
9,619 K
temperature
5.02
apparent magnitude
37.84× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
217 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
37.84×
the Sun's light output
0.91
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.